Carmen/ Shmuel, Thank you. I will review these reference manuals.
Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 9:19 AM Carmen Vitullo <petevi...@gmail.com> wrote: > that's a better reference - I have a PDF saved on my work PC somewhere, > but this looks about the same > > Carmen > > On 9/29/2022 8:05 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > See "Chapter 7. Sharing file systems in a sysplex" in z/OS 2.5 UNIX > System Services Planning, GA32-0884-50. > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on > behalf of Brian Chapman [bchapma...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2022 8:54 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Unix System Services migration > > > > How are most shops handling USS management and migration? > > > > For many years, there has been a strong sentiment in my shop against > > utilizing USS (security and scalability were always cited as the primary > > reasons) and we were only allowed to utilize USS with IBM and ISV > software > > installs. Things are changing and now there is a strong push to change > our > > culture around USS. However, we are greatly behind with the times and > > inexperienced with best management practices regarding USS migrations. > > > > I'm sure our shop isn't the only site with a similar configuration, but > we > > have multiple systems for development lifecycles (alpha testing on SYSA > and > > SYSB, beta testing on SYSC and SYSD, etc). Since USS requires separate > > dataset mounts for each system, this makes sharing common resources > across > > the same lifecycle environment impossible; unless it is read-only (but > how > > do you update the file system without an outage?). Is there some sort of > > management practice that we're missing to achieve the ability to leverage > > common resources in USS? > > > > Also, how do you handle migration? Our shop uses CA Endevor. Do you > employ > > your change management software with USS migrations? If so, how do you > copy > > directories/folders without outages? For directories/files that can > easily > > be built with jobs, do you re-run these jobs on each system, or copy > these > > elements? > > > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Brian Chapman > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
